Native Village Corporations: For the good of the people, or personal gain?

Today's question takes us away from Dillingham, and into smaller villages.  I've lived in a number of Alaska villages over the years and one thing I can't help but notice is that some of the native village corporations exist for the sole purpose of providing paychecks for people working within that native village corporation, and not for the good of the people that they are supposedly there for.  I think the smaller the village, the more of a problem this is.

These native village corporation employees go home with a paycheck that keeps a roof over their head, pays the light bill, and buys food to put on the table.  Now, the smaller the village, the smaller the number of overall jobs in the village.  Usually.  Not just native village corporation jobs, but jobs of any type.  But if you have a village corporation job, you also have elevated status within your community.  This elevated status starts to go to your head.  Over time, your desire for personal gain gets stronger, while your desire to help your people gets weaker.  Eventually, your thoughts of being there for your people get swept under the table.  It becomes me, me, me.  And there's no turning back.  You tend to look at people with an "I have a job and you don't" & "I'm better than you" attitude.  You've been setting this attitude in a mold for years, so it's becoming permanent now.  You frequently tend to look down on people at this point, as your focus is not on them, but on yourself.

So how does one go about landing one of these desirable village corporation jobs?  First things to look at are the job requirements versus the potential employee's qualifications.  Relevant education, training, skills, experience.  I think.  Person who is the most qualified gets hired, right?  In many situations, this is not the case.  "Qualified" has many different meanings, depending on whose eyeballs you're looking through.  I've mentioned what it looks like though mine.  Some see it as "friend" or "family."  Of course, they can always make the argument that they are aiming for native hire.  But I don't think that's usually the case.

So what do you do, and who do you talk to if this is an issue?  Assuming that you care about what goes on in your village, of course.  In one village I've been to- all of the village corporation employees were mysteriously getting loans for snow-machines, cars & vacations.  Over time, people got suspicious and called someone in to do an audit.  Look in other places and you see that everyone is related to each other.  You can look higher up the food chain for answers, but you realize the higher up you look, the more hopeless things are getting for you and your answers.  Am I the only person that is bothered by this?